Sentences with phrase «prayed for longer»

The Governor prayed for longer life for Tinubu just as he expressed the wish that his visions of a greater Nigeria and indeed, the Black race would continue to blossom.

Every spring, Canadian brewing executives gear up for their big season by introducing a new label or two and praying for a long, hot summer.

You never want to run out of money and you pray for a long life.

«I don't pray for long periods of time... my prayers are relatively brief.

From the child who prays for a longed - for toy to the adult who prays for good weather or for good luck in business, there is not a little praying which amounts to saying, «O God, I want this.

I pray for a long life of content for a page - turning biography to enchant and inspire and maybe scandalize the generation coming up behind you.

Ergo I am not wasting my life in church praying for longer life when instead I could be at the gym extending my life for real.

He relates what it was that sustained him: «I think that a bishop, in order to fulfil his role, must do penance, fast, listen to the Lord and pray for long periods in silence and solitude» (p. 70).

Our goalkeepers know that with Petr Cech settled in North - London, they will need to be elsewhere in order to guarantee first - team football, or pray for a long - term injury for the former Chelsea star.

It's not so good for local Democrats praying for long coattails.

We prayed for a long time because since we are adopting older children, we thought of adopting from the U.S..

Not exact matches

Four months before Lucas was born, John Woods prayed for the first time for as long as he could remember.

What we may be praying for might not be good for us or others in the long run.

I pray for Bishop Eddie Long that he trust not man and his faith does not fail him.

We are not yet seeing the fullness of the things for which we have worked, longed and prayed.

«We have been praying for Mark's wife, Gabby Giffords, for many days now, but I want Gabby and Mark and their entire family to know that we are with them for the long haul,» Obama said.

Islam is dangerous and it should remain in the desert where it belongs, I pray for the day when Oil is no longer necessary and we can finally stop interacting with those barbarians.

I will no longer listen to them trying not to answer simple question, I will no longer believe their rhetoric, I will no longer pray for their salvation, they're on their own.

Over the longer term, patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perhaps because of the expectations the prayers created, the researchers suggested.

It inconsistent with the teachings of Christianity to make snide remarks, as Christianity teaches its followers to be patient, kind, long - suffering, love your enemies, pray for those who despitefully use you, turn the other cheek, and so on.

Sorry this is so long, but I can't carry this alone and I need others to be praying for me, please.

Different people, from the pastor to the visitor, are always pressuring, lobbying, praying, expecting, longing and working for their own fantasies of what the church should be to become a reality.

with faith in God nothing can ever destroy you, no matter what happens to you on this earth, he will never let you go through something that you can not handle, I personally have prayed for help in many situations and not got the results i immediatly asked for, but was blessed in ways that worked out better for me in the long run.

It is possible to pray for success in achieving such goals as weight reduction without being blasphemous as long as one understands the appropriate context of prayer.

We notice where they are in their lives; we pray to see what their soul longs for.

Dancing with flags became something we made fun of, like duelling tambourines and long services and «falling out» in the Spirit and daring to pray for healing.

I pray that we would long for prayer and for the Scriptures.

we shall create an alter just as elijah (one of god's chosen) i shall stand watching 400 + religious followers of god pray and pray for as long as they wish, days, weeks, hell even a full year.

By worshipping the fertility sex goddess in these ways, the people were welcoming the longer days of spring, and were praying for fertile flocks and fertile fields.

And if you can be patient with us, if you can pray for us and support us, then I don't think it will be very long before we reap the harvest.

The most dangerous prayer I pray (from time to time) is Psalm 139, «search me heart and thoughts, fin out if there is any evil in me...» I pray this with nervous expectation because I realised Im not very keen to always know whats really in my heart, God brings out things I would never associate with myself, things that I need to throw out, its horrifying but so refreshing in the long run.all these prayers bring painful results but like a colonic irrigation procedure (which I imagine is highly uncomfortable) the result is so worth it.thanks for this post.

I will continue to pray for some of the miracles I've been hoping for a long time.

No longer interested merely in the destinies of corporate groups, God was conceived as caring for persons one by one, so that prayer was a transfiguring individual experience — «As he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered.»

How we pray and long for them to join us!

For what do we long for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie DillaFor what do we long for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dillafor when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dillard?

Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.

Gee John, thanks so much for letting us lady folk know «He» can hear us as long as we pray to your manly God.

They've been hoping and praying and wanting and waiting for a long time for God to respond to their request.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

In my case, though I became an agnistic for a long time, I was never truly an atheist, because I always continued to pray.

First, you need to long for it, cry out for it, and pray for it.

I discovered that when I am pounding my head on some kind of technical problem, I might work on it for a long time and then remember that I haven't been using my most effective debugging too, just to sit back and pray for guidance.

keep the church as full as polsibse especially with a lot of adults and children does not matter how old are u as long as u go to church and plz go on the website for more infomation like prays etc..

She waited and waited for her priest who never arived and when the surgens in the pre opp room could no longer wait I prayed.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Now it is likely that they worked harder and longer as I prayed (outloud) for God to guide them and give them strength and wisdom... or was it answered prayer... would the results have been the same - clearly not because the situation was altered either by God, prayer or simply the hearing of a plea by the surgens and staff.

I pray for the victims and their families and I hope that this nation will realize that as long as it's turning its» back on God, then God will judge this nation as it has judged many nations in the past.

My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.

Breivik wrote: «I prayed for the first time in a very long time today.

A nurse was sacked for offering to pray with a patient and there is a long list of similar incidents.